Women for Generations Campaign to Support New RMH Funkhouser Women’s Center Exceeds $1.75 Million Goal

By Debra Thompson @11:48 AM

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Contact: Debra Thompson

Director, RMH Corporate Communications

540-564-7203

The Women for Generations capital campaign for the new RMH Funkhouser Women’s Center has surpassed its $1.75 million goal, raising $1,843,724 to help fund the new facility by the campaign’s end on Dec. 31, 2012.

“We are appreciative of all who have supported the Women for Generations campaign on behalf of the mothers, wives, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, granddaughters and other important women in their lives—including themselves,” said Teresa Boshart Yoder, director, RMH Women’s Services.

The campaign has received a total of 618 gifts, with 3 percent of total gifts accounting for 79 percent of the total raised, according to Sherrill K. Glanzer, RMH Development Officer and staff liaison for the campaign.

“This has been a very targeted fundraising campaign,” she said. “Our campaign team was comprised of women who are passionate about RMH providing the best quality care possible for the women in our community. Their passion and exceptional leadership, coupled with the generosity of our community, resulted in an extremely successful campaign.”

The Women for Generations Campaign team members are as follows:

Jan Funkhouser Scaglione, Honorary Co-chair

Heidi D. Rafferty, MD, Honorary Co-chair

Louise Otto Hostetter, Campaign Co-chair

Bonnie Paul, Campaign Co-chair

Teresa Brooks Anders

Marcie Harris

Kay Harrison

Ann Homan

Alice Julias

Peggy Kellers

Mary Louise Leake

Jill Versen McGlaughlin

Peggy McKearney

Carmen Strite Miller

Martha Davis Shifflett

Barbara B. Stoltzfus

Diane E. Trobaugh

Nancy Hopkins Voorhees

Campaign team co-chairs Bonnie Paul and Louise Hostetter jointly stated that “The experience was personally rewarding on many levels. We had the opportunity to work with women who accepted the challenge of investing time and energy and turning a community vision into a beautiful building offering specialized health care for women.”

Paul added that the campaign was “an amazing opportunity to collaborate with other community women. Each of our team members had a personal reason for being involved and each brought a special talent.”

Hostetter noted that “There was a spirit of excitement from the outset as we believed that we could achieve the goal of providing a beautiful, comfortable setting for women seeking health care. Moreover, our team has been thrilled by the generosity of our community! Our donors obviously understand the vision that RMH has for women’s health.”

The total cost of the new facility is $6.6 million. The center is named in honor of a $2 million gift from the Fred O. Funkhouser Charitable Foundation. The remainder of the project was funded by a capital commitment made by Sentara Healthcare as part of its merger agreement with RMH.

“I thought my parents would be proud to support this project because of the services it will provide to the many women of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham community,” said Jan Funkhouser Scaglione, daughter of the late Fred and Virginia Funkhouser. “My mother, an RN, would be especially thrilled as she was a 1934 graduate of the RMH School of Nursing. I knew the community would come forward with the same generous spirit to support this well-deserved center on behalf of the generations of women who will use it.”

Anyone wishing to contribute to the Women for Generations campaign may contact Sherrill Glanzer, RMH Development Officer, at 540-564-7221 or skglanze@sentara.com.

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